Cash Quiz belongs to the family of question-and-answer machines with cash payouts that populated European pubs and arcades, a format hybrid between trivia entertainment and a low-risk gambling machine. The player answers general-knowledge questions to accumulate credit or a prize.
It's a testament to a side of the arcade business rarely remembered in the medium's official histories: that of prize machines tied to light gambling, a market parallel to action video games that nonetheless filled the same venues.
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